15 million minutes of fame

Thirty years after the US hockey team’s miracle at Lake Placid, people still can’t get enough of Mike Eruzione. Inside the world of a full-time American legend.

Team USA Olympic women's ice hockey head coach Mark Johnson (left) is joined by Mike Eruzione, captain of the 1980 Olympic gold-medal winning USA hockey team, after practice at Fenway Park in Boston Monday, Jan. 4.

(Elise Amendola/AP) Team USA Olympic women's ice hockey head coach Mark Johnson (left) is joined by Mike Eruzione, captain of the 1980 Olympic gold-medal winning USA hockey team, after practice at Fenway Park in Boston Monday, Jan. 4.

By Billy Baker

January 10, 2010

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Thirty years after the US hockey team’s miracle at Lake Placid, people still can’t get enough of Mike Eruzione. Inside the world of a full-time American legend. (Full article: 3616 words)